Fields Of Fortune: 'Viking' Farmers In America

by Robert Dodge

Book Overview

In the spring of 1853, a family of eight drove their wagon to the wharf in Bergen, Norway. They unloaded their belongings alongside the other stacks labeled, AMERICA, MINNESOTA, ILLINOIS, MICHIGAN, NEW YORK CITY, CHICAGO and boarded the crowded ship.

Hopeful, nervous Norwegians-giving up everything for a place they knew of only through second-hand tales of freedom and opportunity-watched as the shoreline...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1957288671
• ISBN13: 9781957288673
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Wildblue Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"